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Serving Vue.js Apps on GitHub Pages
I wanted to share a pretty simple setup on how to serve a Vue.js app using Github Pages. I’m writing this because I had to search around online for awhile...
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 4,614 posts.
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Have a personal web site
Hello! This is my personal web site. It’s not much, but it’s mine. After nearly a decade of just barely existing, I’ve spent quite a bit of time in 2019 trying to breathe new life into it. At this point, I think just about everyone–but especially folks in the software...
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How to Make Maps Using Leaflet.js, PostGIS and Chicago Open Data
How to get started with mapping GIS data
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The inception bar: a new phishing method
A new phishing technique that displays a fake URL bar in Chrome for mobile. A key innovation is the "scroll jail" that traps the user in a fake browser.
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Stepping Away from Sass
My latest site redesign and why I left out Sass and media queries in favour of native CSS grid, calc, viewport units and custom properties.}
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Elixir, Phoenix, Absinthe, GraphQL, React, and Apollo
ds160 has 2 repositories available. Follow their code on GitHub.
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Animating URLs with JavaScript and Emojis
You can use emoji (and other graphical unicode characters) in URLs. And wow is it great. But no one seems to do it. Why? Perhaps emoji are too exotic for normie web platforms to handle? Or maybe they are avoided for fear of angering the SEO gods?
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Adblock Plus filter lists may execute arbitrary code in web pages
A new version of Adblock Plus was released on July 17, 2018. Version 3.2 introduced a new filter option for rewriting requests. A day later AdBlock followed suit and released support for the new filter option. uBlock, being owned by AdBlock, also implemented the feature. Under certain conditions the $rewrite filter…
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Web Developer's Guide to DNS
Every developer should know the basics of DNS, the critical protocol at the heart of the web.
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Web Components could replace frontend frameworks?
The native web platform has caught up with frontend frameworks and will slowly render them obsolete.
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339 Bytes of Responsive CSS
7 CSS declarations and a/an (optional) font import is all it takes to change a drab basic website to a minimalistic easy to read piece of beauty.
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Measuring the overhead of WebAssembly using libsodium
The libsodium cryptographic library added support for WebAssembly back in 2017.
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When to Use TypeScript – A Detailed Guide Through Common Scenarios
Strap yourself in. In this guide, we compare when it's absolutely vital to be using TypeScript, the strictly-typed programming language, and when it makes sense to stick to vanilla JavaScript.
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Native image lazy-loading for the web
In this post, we’ll look at the new loading attribute which brings native <img> and <iframe> lazy-loading to the web!. For the curious, here’s a ...
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Clean Coder Blog
Over the last several years we’ve seen a whole range of ideas regarding the architecture of systems. These include:
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Should you be concerned about LastPass uploading your passwords to its server?
The answer to this question is still "Yes!" Here I demonstrate yet another way for the server to access your data, the issues being structural.
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Dear Mozilla, please stop spamming
Detailing Mozilla's failures to send newsletters only to users who actually opted in.
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Inverse Live Coding: A practice for learning web development
I finished my first semester teaching at the University of Michigan. I taught EECS 493 User Interface Development all on the Web. It was a tough class for me since I had never before this class use…
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Banish missing glyphs with Unifont
The GNU Unifont project is amazing. It contains every Unicode glyph in one single file! I am going to argue that you should bundle it with your apps, your operating systems, and - at a pinch - your websites. The Unifont is a perfect fallback font. If your app or website uses a Unicode character which isn't supported…
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Who has the fastest website in F1?
I was trying to make my predictions for the new Formula One season by studying the aerodynamics of the cars, their cornering speeds, their ability to run with different amounts of fuel. Then it hit me: I have no idea what I'm doing.
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I tried creating a web browser, and Google blocked me
After 4 months of waiting, that is the response I got from Widevine, Google’s DRM for web browsers, regarding a license agreement. For the last 2 years I’ve been working on a web browser that now cannot be completed because Google, the creators of the open source browser Chrome, won’t allow DRM in an open source…
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Size visualization of Go executables using D3
Note The latest version of this document can be found online at https://dr-knz.net/go-executable-size-visualization-with-d3.html. Alternate formats: Source, PDF. Note Erratum (2019-04-02): The increase in binary size from CockroachDB v1.0 to v19.2 is 94%/125%, not 194%/225% as initially written. The increase in source…